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Thursday, May 31, 2012

best of the blotter: cleaning fairies and bunkers

Bunker
A resident found an old bunker in a wooded area off Mohawk Drive May
22, and told police it looked like someone was living there, according to
a report.
Police confirmed that someone was living in the structure, and went back a few hours later to see if he had returned.
He was. The man told police he thought the property belonged to a
friend, and said he was trying to figure out a way to build a waterproof
bunker.
He was told he couldn't live there. In addition, the report said the
structure looked like it might collapse and is a hazard if kids play
there.

Suspicious Sitting
Someone noticed two men sitting in a car in a Pearl Road paking lot
for 45 minutes May 22 and called police, suspecting the men where
shooting up.
Police found their were surfing, not shooting. They'd had lost their cable and were using the Wi Fi signal. They were told to move on.

You Yelled?
A Whitney Road resident told police his neighbors were having a
domestic dispute May 21, saying he could hear a woman screaming in
another language.
A report said the woman was yelling at her children to encourage them to behave.

RUDE NEIGHBOR, BRIDGESIDE DRIVE: A resident called
police at 5:22 a.m. May 25 to report someone on a loud speaker was
yelling, “Hello, neighborhood — time to wake up.” When officers arrived
seven minutes later, the neighborhood was quiet, police said.

THREAT, WEST CLIFTON BOULEVARD: A man texted his
former boss to say that he wanted payment for work that he had
performed. He threatened to initiate a “duel” if payment were not
received.
The boss was advised to keep in touch with police if the man tried to start anything.

RECKLESS DRIVER, PEARL ROAD: Police cited a man for
drunken driving at 8:22 p.m. May 7 after receiving a call that he was
driving recklessly in a motel parking lot. Witnesses said the man was
doing “donuts” and nearly struck the motel sign. The man told police
that he was taking a “victory lap” around the lot after meeting a girl
and being offered a job that day. He failed a portable blood alcohol
Breathalyzer test and was cited. The man had a previous DUI in 2007.

UNDERAGE DRINKING, VARIOUS LOCATIONS: Over the
four-day Blossom Festival weekend, police made 23 arrests, 14 adults and
nine juveniles, involving 33 charges. Of those, nearly 80 percent of
those charges were alcohol-related, including the highest occurrence of
underage consumption in four years, police noted, adding many of the
underage arrests occurred in the Shopping Center parking lot.

At the same time officers were transporting the Bentleyville woman, a
South Russell man, 18, approached the cruiser and started jumping up
and down waving his arms wildly and saying, “that’s my best friend in
the back seat.” When police told him they noticed an extreme odor of
alcohol on him as well, he initially refused to give them his name,
saying “C’mon, it’s Blossom Time!” He was also charged with disorderly
conduct, resisting arrest and failure to disclose personal information.
Police said he later apologized for his behavior, and acknowledged he
had acted “stupid.”

A Chagrin Falls boy was given a citation for his 17th birthday May 27
after an officer near May Court and Elm Court spotted him with a
disposable cup that had his name on it, and also said “Not Alcohol.” The
officer was not fooled, and found several unopened beers in the
backpack left behind after several other juveniles with him denied
having consumed any alcohol.

A Hunting Valley man, 19, was charged shortly before 5:30 p.m. May 27
with a beer in a brown bag. Police also seized two out-of-state I.D.s,
one from Illinois and one from South Carolina, both of which made him 21
years old.

WESTLAKE -- Police have identified a real life cleaning fairy -- who may be flapping her wings into a jail cell.
The woman broke into a Westlake home, did some light cleaning, then left a bill.
The family thought a cleaning service sent someone to the wrong
house, but the "cleaning fairy" told them it was no mistake, and they
better pay up.
Sherry Bush has re-told the story more times than she can remember,
and every neighbor wants to know about the cleaning woman who took the
sign on her front door a bit too literally.

"There were some coffee mugs that my husband had out," Bush said. "She had washed them all."
Last week, while she was away and her daughter was sleeping upstairs,
someone broke in the house, took out trash, vacuumed the carpet and
cleaned up the playroom, Bush said.

"She wrote a note [on a napkin] and left it on the table, saying, '$75 I
was here to clean,' and left her name and number," Bush said.

When the Bushes read it, they thought Sue Warren just cleaned the wrong house, so they gave her a call.

"I think our jaws just dropped to the ground," Bush said. "I said, what
happened, did you get the wrong house? She said, 'no, I do this all the
time.' I said, what do you mean? She said, 'I just stop and clean your
house.'"

It isn't clear if Sue Warren does this all the time, but she did do it
last month in Beachwood, and was charged with criminal trespassing.
A friend living at Warren's Elyria home said Sue is always working and owns her own business.
Sue Warren Cleaning can be found online.

"That's what she does for a living. She cleans," Bush said.
"Now that we've seen the job that she did, it was like whoa, $75? $15 maybe," Bush said laughing.
No charges have been filed against Warren yet in Westlake, but they may still come.
Despite the strange nature of these crimes, nothing was stolen from the homes.

6 comments:

A Chagrin Falls boy was given a citation for his 17th birthday May 27 after an officer near May Court and Elm Court spotted him with a disposable cup that had his name on it, and also said “Not Alcohol.” The officer was not fooled, and found several unopened beers in the backpack left behind after several other juveniles with him denied having consumed any alcohol.